Comparing Impossibilities

Book cover of Comparing Impossibilities: Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore

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Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political…

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1 author picked Comparing Impossibilities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dean A. Strang

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A wonderful introduction to, or return visit with, a strikingly interesting and groundbreaking legal anthropologist. Moore's writing is clear and confident, and her thinking fascinating. This book is, to my mind, an invitation to undertake again, at any time, the joys of being a student. Why? She models so well the curiosity, care, and rethinking that are the essence of being a student.

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